Fluent material handling – with receiver or receiver coacting mea – Multiple passage filling means for diverse materials or flows – With baffle – spreader – displacer – drip ring – filter or screen
Reexamination Certificate
2007-05-22
2007-05-22
Maust, Timothy L. (Department: 3751)
Fluent material handling, with receiver or receiver coacting mea
Multiple passage filling means for diverse materials or flows
With baffle, spreader, displacer, drip ring, filter or screen
C141S059000, C141S065000, C141S302000, C141S308000, C123S516000, C123S520000
Reexamination Certificate
active
11201598
ABSTRACT:
A fuel tank for a motor vehicle, conveys fuel from the tank to an internal combustion engine of the vehicle, and includes a filling connection with a filling opening. The tank comprises an improved venting arrangement for venting the tank during refuelling and during operation thereof, with at least one fuel vapor filter by way of which the fuel tank is vented. The fuel vapor filter is of a two-stage configuration having first and second filter stages in the direction of flow in venting. A refuelling venting conduit is branched off after the first filter stage and is communicatable with the atmosphere or the tank interior.
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Bolle Dirk
Treudt Volker
Grossman Tucker Perreault & Pfleger PLLC
Kautex Textron GmbH & Co. KG
Maust Timothy L.
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